B.C.Francis
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Try the Global Hydrology and Climate Center. Once on the home page , click on the satellite image tab. This is an interactive site that I`m sure you will injoy. Follow the menu, after awhile you`ll get the hang of it......Weatherchef
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Colleen A.
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In 1999, I went to Hawaii (Maui). I remember that when you woke up in the morning, you could not see the mountains because the tradewinds were blowing east instead of west, which caused a lot of the volcanic ash to cover the island. I can't remember the exact name of what they called it, but people with respiratory problems were told it would be safer to stay inside.
I also remember that the plane ride from LA to Maui took longer than usual because we were flying INTO the trade winds, but the ride home was cut from about 5 hours to just around 3-1/2 due to the very strong tail winds that were pushing us back to the states. I believe that the pilot said that they were almost 300+ mph, but I'm not sure if that's completely accurate.
Would the trade winds that had reversed in 1999 be the same thing that is causing Adrian to move west to east instead of east to west? I'm thinking that's the case, but I'm not entirely sure.
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Clark
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Colleen -- it's really just a case of unusually strong winds associated with a trough from the mid-latitudes dipping into the deep tropics and steering the storm northeast, rather than just the trades. That's at least partially likely what happened in Hawaii in 1999 for you as well, potentially associated with the subtropical jet stream.
As for Adrian now...in the immortal words of Bones McCoy, "he's dead, Jim." Very difficult to find a LLC on visible satellite imagery and the northeast side of the storm -- where you'd expect to see the strongest winds -- isn't even showing a hint of a circulation (e.g. winds out of the east) over the open water in the Caribbean on the 1100 UTC QuikSCAT passage. I expect to see the storm declassified after the 11am (ET) advisory, with its remnants not likely redeveloping in the Caribbean: the shear is just too strong. It should become absorbed into a frontal zone somewhere around the time it meets up with Cuba.
Alas, no "A" in the Atlantic basin just quite yet, I'm afraid (well, not really afraid, but you all get the jist of it).
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ftlaudbob
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Anybody got any cool hurricane links for the upcoming season?Free of course.
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B.C.Francis
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Try wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/..........Weatherchef
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Jamiewx
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This is my collection
National Weather Service Homepage
Tropical Forecast Models
Central Florida Hurricane Center
StormCentral.org
BoatU.S. Hurricane Center
Buckeye Weather
CIMSS Tropical Cyclones
CPC - Monitoring & Data: Daily North Atlantic Oscillation Index
MJO Graphic
Hurricane Alley
NRL Homepage
SOI Values
Meteorological Center - My Website
NWS Detroit/Pontiac Weather Glossary
Operational Significant Event Imagery
PC Beach Weather
Satellite Services Division - Tropical Products
Texas A&M Weather Page
Interesting Case Study for Florida
The System for Convection Analysis and Nowcasting (SCAN)
Tropical RAMSDIS Online
Unisys Weather
Weather Underground
Mid Atlantic Weather
NOAA Environmental Visualization Program
RAP Real Time Weather Data
National Hurricane Center
Storm Prediction Center
Glad to see the board active again, just got back from the Bahamas, and they still have a lot of debris to get cleaned up. Tourist area is cleaned up, but outside that, work needs doing. Along much of the coast, i couldn't see any storm surge protection, aside from a large rock or two scattered around. Bad drainage system too, roads were covered by water after a thunderstorm, so they must have been washed out after last years barrage of Hurricanes.
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Steve Hirschb.
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Need to add Lou's tropical weather watch to the list. Don't know where he gets the sat pix, but they're great!!!! 
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Lysis
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Not quite an information link, but you can find some of the most incredible images I have ever seen here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natural...amp;topic=storm
Large, High quality files... great for posters.
sorry to edit this, jeffery, but i clicked on it and i got about four popups (even with my new computer and it's blocking skills), so i'm afraid it may be a bad link...
EDIT: Really? I would think that NASA would be immune to such things. Oh well... as you said.
Everyone note that Phil deleted the link in queston and not the one above, so fear not to click on it. Some truly awesome true color high quality images. Most of these are used for promotional material concerning hurricanes.
Edited by Lysis (Sat May 21 2005 01:45 AM)
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Ryan
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is it safe to say that long island is due for a hurricane one of these days, i hear many people up here saying "oh, yea ones due up here..we were spared like fro the last 3 years, hey florida..share the wealth ok, gosh freaking idiots
lol, thanks eveyone..:p [i]RyAn[/i]
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LadyStorm
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Thanks for the great links. Those who live in Florida may want to take the time to visit one in particular. I found it particularly disturbing, considering all of the canes that hit us last year.
Case Against Florida
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LI Phil
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JOHN C.!!!!!!!!!!!
and katie
Best Wishes & Many Many More!!!!
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Cycloneye11
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Happy birthday and have many more.
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tornado00
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Cool link LadyStorm, so that's why went right over my house. Sounds like we need to empty all of our freezer ice boxes into the ocean, maybe that will fix it. 
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tornado00
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Big blow up of convection in the near South America, but it looks like it's too far south to do anything.
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Storm Cooper
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Happy Birthday to you both
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LadyStorm
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It was one on Jamie's list that I found interesting. Can't take the credit for finding it.
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FlaMommy
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U BOTH....BEST WISHES
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Will
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is that an extropical wave near 30n 40w? looks pretty strong on sats. Is it the next perfect storm?
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Clark
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No storm out there is the next "perfect storm." That storm coincided with the merger of an low and a tropical cyclone into a single, cyclone that later briefly gained a warm-core structure. There's not a whole lot to separate it from a lot of other things that happen out there, or have happened out there, except for the notoriety.
The system at 30N/40W is an feature. These happen all of the time through the winter and spring months.
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Lysis
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Notoriety indeed...
Halloween hurricane:
Edited by Lysis (Sat May 21 2005 11:44 PM)
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